Detection limits of multi-spectral optical imaging under the skin surface

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 617-636

  Binzoni, T ^a,b   Vogel, A ^c   Gandjbakhche, A H ^c   Marchesini, R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; PATHOLOGY; PIXELS; SKIN; TISSUE;

OPTICAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL TISSUES; SKIN SURFACE; SPECTRAL IMAGES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; DERMIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SURFACE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; THICKNESS; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DERMOSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 41849143775     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/3/008     Document Type: Article

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